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China has a longer than 5000 years history It has a deep cultural background in Chinese With the time passing by it has been changed a lot However it has kept many good customs and they may still being past on From Chinese conversational style the ways of Chinese communication and Chinese language grammar we can acquaint ourselves with the characteristics of Chinese language We can infer the culture features from Chinese conversational style In the ancient China people usually talk with each other in the indirect way People werent express their meaning undecoratedly For example if person wanted to prevent his friends or children from doing something he would tell them a fable in which hinted a moralism Then let his friend or children to aware by themselves and decide whether to do or not Myron W Lusting in his book Intercultural Competence Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures wrote that Japanese Chinese and Indian cultures all emphasize the social role or the interpersonal community in which a particular person is embedded 1996 P234 Its sure that in China the status can effects the conversation If grandparents are talking to their grandchildren grandchildren should be more polite and listen carefully They should not interrupt when their grandparents are speaking and they should not contradict directly even though they disagree with their grandpa or grandmas opinion The conversational situation which takes place between boss and employee is the same The phenomenon will be more obvious if the gap of the positions between speaker and listener is wider Furthermore many Chinese prefer explain things succinctly People usually give necessary information in their expressivenesses Especially for the men they often describe the affairs more precisely The style of conversation shows a part of Chinese culture The communication of Chinese culture has inherited many habits from the ancient conventions First of all most of Chinese are still keep using the

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